Ask HN: What'd you do to get your first 100 users?

Re:Ask HN: What'd you do to get your first 100 users? by speakme on Sunday February 16, 2014 @04:30PM (#7249407)

How long was the turnaround between submitting to betali.st and getting featured? I've heard some people submit just a few days before going live, so by the time users get invites it's still fresh in their minds.

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Re:Ask HN: What'd you do to get your first 100 users? by muratmutlu on Sunday February 16, 2014 @05:31PM (#7249651)

Actually for us it was pretty long (which I don't recommend). I think what you suggested is a much better strategy.

I think it was around 3 months so it wasn't as fresh but what I did was go through email addresses one by one, picked out the companies that sounded the most promising and opened up a dialogue to get those guys in early.

Then kept the other guys informed to try and keep them excited. Although if I would have done it just before launching I would have saved a lot of effort.

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Re:Ask HN: What'd you do to get your first 100 users? by speakme on Monday February 17, 2014 @10:22AM (#7252431)

Yea that's what I'd be afraid of. It sounds like you handled it well. Since betali.st only features products that haven't fully launched yet, I just don't want to submit, and then by the time they see my submission we're live and they won't accept it. How long did it take between when you submitted to them and when you were actually featured?

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